Plans

to expand GTO's restaurant to include indoor

seating are looking more likely to receive

approval.

Fayetteville

Planning Commission members during their work

session last week seemed willing to cut the

restaurant some slack as they consider how much

the existing building will have to be modified

before they will approve the addition.

Development

plans for the expansion are on the action agenda

for the commission's July 27 meeting, 7:30 p.m.

at City Hall.

GTO's

was built using different, older development

regulations, and city ordinances state that in

such cases, when a business adds on it must

upgrade to the newer rules, as much as is

practical.

Planning

director Jahnee Prince told commission members

last week that although the restaurant's lighting

doesn't conform to current rules, it's so close

that it wouldn't be practical to replace it.

The

restaurant also must build sidewalks, but Prince

suggested the group might put off that

requirement until businesses are built on either

side of it. Otherwise, GTO's would be building a

sidewalk to nowhere, she said.

"They

have agreed to install the sidewalks whenever the

properties to the north or south build

theirs," she said.

The

restaurant proposes to build a 370-sq. ft.

addition to accommodate customers who want to

dine inside.

The

'50s style drive-through concept works fine when

the weather is good, said owner Charles Oddo in a

previous meeting, but when storm clouds rise, his

profits plummet, he said.

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